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Del Rey
March 2019
On Sale: March 5, 2019
560 pages
ISBN: 1984817205
EAN: 9781984817204
Kindle: B07DMZCKPM
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Fantasy
In a thrilling feminist fantasy epic, a revolutionary spell gives women the ability to control their own fertilityโwith consequences that rock their patriarchal society to its core.
When a nobleman's first duty is to produce a male heir, women have always been treated like possessions and bargaining chips. But now, as the aftereffects of this world-altering spell ripple out, women at last have a bargaining chip of their own. Alys is the widowed mother of two teenage children, and the disinherited daughter of a king. Her existence has been carefully proscribed, but now she discovers a fierce talent not only for politics, but also for magic. Meanwhile, in a neighboring kingdom, young Ellin finds herself unexpectedly on the throne after the sudden death of everyone who stood before her in the line of succession. Conventional wisdom holds that she will marry quickly, then surrender the throne to her new husbandโฆonly Ellin has other ideas. The tensions tearing at both kingdoms become abruptly worse when a caravan of exiled women and their escort of disgraced soldiers stumble upon a new source of magic in what was once uninhabitable desert. This new and revolutionary magicโwhich only women can wieldโthreatens to tear down what is left of the patriarchy. And the men who currently hold power would do anything to destroy it.
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